Friday, December 2

Thoughts...

At 6 am today, a Cambodian Native Australian was hung at the Changi Prison for having traffick 400g of Heroin into Singapore while on a transit back to Melbourne. Alot has been said in the days leading to his execution.. there were countless negotiations by the Australians and Singapore needless to say Singapore was stern on its dicision. TheStar reported that "in his final hours as calm, resolute and ready to die. " but was he really ready to die ? at only 25 .... had he really enjoyed life ? agreed that being caught with any sort of drug was wrong ... yet had no one paid any attention to the pleas that had been made? I may be young and naive ...however I cant help but feel somehow somewhere something wrong was done ... taking the life of someone is being equivlent (sp?) to killing ... in my opinion there is always a better way to punish someone then hanging them or executing them in such a manner.... no one knows what was going through his mind just before his execution... how would his mother have felt? how would his brother have felt ? they weren't allowed to hug him especially his mother .... he was only human after all, and he probably needed that hug ... i may not know the entire story ... but these are just my thoughts and like many others i too mourn the loss of Nguyen Tuong Van...

R.I.P Nguyen Tuong Van (1980-2005)

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